RaySharpton
Retired and going to Disney.
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- Oct 28, 2000
Pop and Art gondolas unwrapped
http://passporttotheparks.com/disne...olas-at-pop-and-art-full-construction-update/
I just want to know since the cast members doing the rescue practice had hard hats on are they going to provide hard hats for the guests when there is a rescue.
Typically, in a true rescue situation, the first responders will have on appropriate safety gear, and their first goal is simply to get everyone to safety as fast as possible. There isn't time to hand out hard hats, and make sure everyone's hat is adjusted correctly, etc.
When you look at ride & attraction evacuations at WDW, historically the Cast Members involved don't have a lot of safety gear on at the time. The Gondolas are a bit different, because they are a form of transportation, they are outside, they are overhead, etc. However, we don't yet know if they are wearing hard hats during training for safety, but won't be expected to wear them in an emergency - or if they will have them all the time, either on their person, or at their work station.
Additionally, I don't believe they have ever given Guests hard hats during Monorail evacuations, for example. Based on that alone, I would presume that the folks who rescue you won't stop to hand out hard hats; they will be focused on getting you out on the platform, and back to terra firma.
That's to avoid or minimize injury if something fell ON you.we were not allowed out of our vehicle without a hard hat on. Dad would have to grab a spare either out of his work vehicle or out of the control house. We also had to have closed toed shoes
This is purely speculation... For evacuations over land, I have seen videos showing a large scissor lift truck, which seems pretty straight forward. I've been wondering how an evacuation with the boat would work with ECV and wheelchairs. From what I can see on other videos, there aren't any kind of ramps or lifts on it. It just appears to be platforms of different levels with stairs. The above video (@ the 9:48 mark) shows an ramp that appears to be able to used at different levels of the evac boat. I'm thinking that they would use that for ECV and wheelchairs to roll down from the top of the platform down to the actual dock. What do you guys think?
I'm not really worried about evac. This is more a of an engineering "how would they do that?" kind of question.
we were not allowed out of our vehicle without a hard hat on.
It appears there's not a lot over over-water routing. Mainly Hourglass Lake. At CBR, it looks like the tracking is close enough to shore that the scissor truck will work.My guess is that over the water if someone was in an ECV or wheelchair they would just carry the person and there ECV or wheelchair out
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A splice in the wire rope of Disney Skyliner. Multiple spools of rope have been spliced to make continuous lines. A rare photo. Splices will be near impossible to spot when the system is operating.
Disney Cast Members Take Over Operation of the Disney Skyliner
While visiting Disney’s Hollywood Studios today, we noticed that the Disney Skyliner wasn’t being operated by the construction crews that we’ve seen in the past. Now, Disney Cast Members with name tags have begun training and taking over the operations of Disney’s newest transportation system. While they may not be in the Disney Skyliner costumes yet, this is another big milestone for the project as guest-facing Cast Members take control. Of course, we’re still months away from the Disney Skyliner actually transporting guests, but training has begun!
Here’s a wider look at the departer and return view for the Disney Skyliner station at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
There is virtually no space at all between the cabins in the load and unload area -- certainly not enough space to insert another cabin. The cabins speed up slightly as they leave the unload area to open up some space between them thru the turnaround, and decelerate to close up that space as they enter the load area.
The way the 2nd loop works is that there are 3 positions. There are 2 cabins in the loop, at position A (presumably unload) and at position B (load). When loading is complete, those 2 cabins simultaneously move forward to positions B & C. A few seconds later, the next cabin enters the loop from the main unload and stops at position A, creating a gap on the mainline. When the gap reaches the exit from the 2nd loop, the newly loaded cabin leaves position C, filling the gap, and the loop is back to 2 cabins where we started.
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BTW, there is no pushing of cabins in regular operations. All cabins in the station are driven by tires above the track which I assume are controlled by the computer.
Yeah, that looks like what is happening in this video. The sequence looks like this.
1. A unloading, B loading, C waiting to enter the line, D about to enter the loop.
2. A moves up to make room for D and C moves onto the line in the gap left by D.
3. B moves up to get ready to enter the line A moves up to load and the cycle repeats.
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